Individuals | Groups and Businesses | Volunteer Application | Volunteer Tasks
INDIVIDUALS
Have you enjoyed the Lowell Folk Festival® over the years? Did you ever wonder how it all happens? It takes about 1000 people to make it successful … and you could be one of those people! Most visitors see the volunteers who work in the sales or information booths, but many more tasks are available.
For more information and/or to receive a volunteer application
packet, please call the park volunteer office at 978-275-1740 to speak
with Paul Mueller or Mike Wurm. Or simply review volunteer jobs
listing download
and fill out the volunteer application form (see below) to email to Lowell_NHP_Volunteers@nps.gov,
or mail to:
Lowell NHP Volunteer Office
67 Kirk St.
Lowell, MA 01852
Application Forms
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GROUPS AND BUSINESSES:
Lowell National Historical Park and the Lowell Festival Foundation are
partnering in the production of the 21st Annual Lowell Folk Festival
on July 27-29, 2007. For this grand festival to continue as the
largest free folk festival in the country, we are recruiting more than
a thousand volunteers. With new stages and programming added for
this year, we are not only seeking more volunteers, but also some volunteers
to take on new tasks.
We are inviting volunteers, businesses, and organizations to donate their time and energy.
Individual volunteers will continue to be the event backbone, and we
are also recruiting teams of volunteers sponsored by businesses and
organizations to:
- collect donations at festival stages and throughout the festival grounds;
- assist in set-up and take-down of stages and seating areas;
- help with recycling and collection of trash and recyclables;
- perform other individual tasks, ranging from the logging of performer music and the escorting and transportation of musicians to helping festival visitors to find their way around the downtown festival sites.
For more information and/or to receive a volunteer application packet, please call the park volunteer office at 978-275-1740 to speak with Paul Mueller or Mike Wurm, or email them at Lowell_NHP_Volunteers@nps.gov. You
may also review on this website the volunteer jobs listing and fill out the volunteer application form to email to the above address, or mail to:
Lowell NHP Volunteer Office
67 Kirk St.
Lowell, MA 01852
How did this all start?
The Lowell Folk Festival came out of a festival tradition that started in 1973 with a series of community ethnic festivals completely organized by volunteers. Many of the folks who work year ’round on the event have been involved with festivals here for 30 years. Newer members often come through family generational growth. The kids who were “runners”are becoming site managers and teaching their kids the tasks. There is no question that the loyalty of this group keeps this event humming and it is critical to the on-going success the event has enjoyed since the “National”moved on to other cities. The event draws a large group of community volunteers specific to its run and also has a good group of workers “behind the scenes ”in the ethnic food operation.
The festival continues to recruit “new blood”from Lowell and the entire region.
Individuals and groups are encouraged to volunteer.
All of the volunteers are signed up for the National Park volunteer program, which provides insurance coverage and requires an accurate accounting of hours.
The volunteer coordinator for the park and the volunteer coordinator for the festival foundation work together to assign volunteers. Please mark a few choices of jobs so that we may place you where you will be needed.
We ask all volunteers to attend a volunteer meeting on July 18. 19, 22 or 25 at the National Park Visitor Center on Market Street. (Day depends upon job assignment).
All volunteers will be given a Festival Volunteer shirt that we ask you to wear during your assignment for identification purposes.
For more information, you may call the park volunteer coordinator at
978-275-1740 or email us at Lowell_NHP_Volunteers@nps.gov.
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